The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management
Fact Sheet
Examples of the Foundation's accomplishments include:
- Presentation of more than twenty conferences, video teleconferences, and seminars reaching thousands of nonprofit leaders from around the world. The conferences presented thought leaders with extensive experience in the social, public, and private sectors to examine the critical leadership issues facing communities, organizations and individuals. Participants from all three sectors explored leadership issues and innovative tools and practices necessary to serve and succeed in times of rapid change.
- Publication of thirteen books and four videos on leadership, management, innovation, change, and collaboration for social sector leaders.
- Publication of Leader to Leader, an award winning journal for over six years. Leader to Leader offers cutting-edge thinking on leadership, management, and strategy written by today's top thought leaders from the private, public, and social sectors.
- Development of workshops and training for social sector leaders. Since 1998, over 120 different organizations have sponsored workshops based on the Foundation's organizational Self-Assessment Tool and its Meeting the Collaboration Challenge workbook. In these workshops, the Foundation has trained nearly 11,000 nonprofit leaders and provided facilitator training to 1,500 trainers in self-assessment and introduced 400 leaders to strategies for developing nonprofit and business alliances.
- Development of a documentary, "Peter F. Drucker: An Intellectual Journey," to be shown on CNBC in December 2002 and January 2003.
Presenting the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation to twelve exemplary nonprofit organizations, one each in 1991-2002. The purpose of the Nonprofit Innovation Award is to find the innovators, whether small or large; to recognize and celebrate their example; and, to inspire others.
- Celebrating twenty-nine Frances Hesselbein Community Innovation Fellows, social sector leaders who have a demonstrated record of leadership and entrepreneurial performance, and who are engaged in community innovation.
- Working in partnership with many organizations to reach leaders across society. Partners have included the Aspen Institute, the Center for Creative Leadership, The Conference Board, the Council on Foundations, Jossey-Bass/John Wiley Publishing, and the U.S. Army.
- Working with more than 275 thought leaders, whose intellectual contributions have furthered the Foundation's work in publications and presentations, both in the United States and abroad.
- Providing superior online resources:
- A Web site with more than one hundred articles from Leader to Leader, workbook tools and worksheets, and much more for leaders of change.
- The Nonprofit Innovation of the Week, a weekly email notice that shares a short description of an innovation discovery from the Foundation's Nonprofit Innovation Discovery Site. The site shares practical lessons collected from the hundreds of annual nominations for the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.
- Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Monthly is a monthly email with news and resources for people interested in developing nonprofit-business alliances. Items include resources available from the Drucker Foundation or elsewhere on the Web and workshop schedules.
The Leader to Leader Institute has deep historical roots in the social sector and its predecessor, the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, which, effective January 1, 2003, will transfer all of its ongoing activities to the new identity.
The Leader to Leader Institute mission is "to strengthen the leadership of the social sector."
For more information, contact:
Leader to Leader Institute
320 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10022
Tel: +1 212 224 1174
Fax: +1 212 224 2508
Web: drucker.org
